Bullish on Pre-Attentive Design for Agents; Bearish on Non-Agent-Friendly Tools
sh_reya · x · 2026-08-19
Shreya Shankar stakes out a sharp position:
- Extremely bearish on any programming tool without an agent-friendly interface;
- Bullish on designing pre-attentive attributes for agents — UI cues that let agents solve problems without spending reasoning tokens.
Core idea: tools should let agents see the answer in the interface instead of burning tokens to infer it.
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